Example sentences of "[verb] by government [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | These and other findings — reported at a meeting of the American Society of Testing and Materials — contradict extensive evidence of damage to the local environment presented by government researchers over the last four years . |
| 2 | When local expenditure was greatly curtailed by Government restrictions on the raising of revenue ( rate-capping ) many authorities sought ways of raising money by other means . |
| 3 | Some of the claims made by government defenders of the programme are , however , questionable . |
| 4 | Also in June , right-wing extremists were blamed for bomb attacks on ( i ) a war museum in Pretoria ; ( ii ) the National Union of Mineworkers offices in Welkom [ see also pp. 37440-41 ] ; and ( iii ) two offices used by government ministers in the Transvaal . |
| 5 | An outstanding example was provided by the GEC merger with English Electric in 1968 in which its promoter , Arnold Weinstock , firmly believed he had been helped by government support through the IRC . |
| 6 | Britain 's invisible earnings , which are made up of a surplus on things like insurance and banking offset by government contributions to the European Community and overseas aid , are now projected to be about £2,670million in 1989 , less than half the £6,100million total earned in 1988 . |
| 7 | A previous influx of linen in the sixteenth century had been countered by government sponsorship of the linen industry and the growing of coarse flax and hemp , part of a larger tendency in Britain towards the development of local projects to counter foreign imports ( Thirsk 1978 : 72–4 ) . |